Overseas Viewers Were In Disbelief At Irish Fans’ Reaction To Rory McIlroy’s Irish Open Win<\/a><\/p>\nShane Lowry outburst caught on hot mic at Wentworth<\/p>\n
One of Friday’s liveliest groups saw Tyrrell Hatton, Robert MacIntyre, and Ryan Fox tee off at 8:35am.<\/p>\n
Hatton has something of a reputation as an easily frustrated player, and that shone through when he struck his own bag with a club after hitting a tree at close range early in his round.<\/p>\n
MacIntyre could later be heard shouting “THAT’S THE ONE PLACE YOU CANNOT FUCKING HIT IT!” after miscalculating his approach to the green.<\/p>\n
Soon, all three men were routinely swearing throughout their rounds, leading the Sky Sports commentators to humorously start taking turns apologising for the foul-mouthed antics.<\/p>\n
There was an unexpected addition to this trio when Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy’s group approached the 15th.<\/p>\n
Lowry overhit his approach to the green, with the ball trickling off the far edge and back into rough terrain.<\/p>\n
The mics would then pick up the Offaly man shouting, “I mean, you are fucking joking!”<\/p>\n
After all of the swearing from the Hatton-MacIntyre-Fox group had the Sky commentators weary by this stage, and they would come up with a brilliant response:<\/p>\n
Sorry to hear that. We weren’t joking!<\/p>\n
It is not the first time this year that Shane Lowry has been caught swearing on a hot mic, with similar incidents at three of the year’s four majors.<\/p>\n
Lowry would finish the day with a two-over-par 74, to leave him tied with Rory McIlroy on -3, nine shots back from the leader Hideki Matsuyama.<\/p>\n
McIlroy hit five birdies, three bogeys, and a double bogey, to finish with a frustrating level-par 72.<\/p>\n
Both men are through to the weekend but are effectively out of contention at a tournament they have both won before.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Jon Rahm Makes Admission About Irish Open After Impact Of His LIV Golf Move<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a frustrating day for Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,1395,112],"class_list":["post-18130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shane-lowry","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}